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berkshaman

48 / M / Straight / Single

Berkeley, California

His Details

Last Online
Yesterday – 10:11pm
Ethnicity
White
Height
6′ 3″ (1.91m).
Body Type
Average
Diet
Smokes
No
Drinks
Socially
Drugs
Sometimes
Religion
Buddhism and laughing about it
Sign
Pisces and it’s fun to think about
Education
Graduated from college/university
Job
Artistic / Musical / Writer
Income
Offspring
Has kids
Pets
Has dogs
Speaks
English (Fluently), Greek (Okay), Spanish (Poorly)

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My self-summary
I am a musician (Horn player, vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist), writer (lyrics, articles, ruminations), imagist (photo, video)...lover of subtlety, natural harmonics and details, in bound volumes, film, music, and even sports (subtlety mostly found in baseball and soccer, but I'll watch football and occasionally basketball for entertainment -- and the Warriors are getting pretty entertaining lately...)

Wind, watercourses and the sea...

I would like to think of myself as thoughtful, sensual, spiritual and questing...

I am also the divorced father of two cool kids (12 and almost 14...I share custody 50%, incl. alternate weekends),
What I’m doing with my life
Taking things one day at a time...

Still playing music. Writing, 'blogging'...More rehearsing, good pieces. Saw Searching For Sugarman. Rodriguez is a special being (I saw him perform at Slim's a few years ago), and the cinematography is great...

My mother recently passed away, so I am in many ways beginning anew with this new year, with even more added significance, being a Water Snake...

Music, music, music...
I’m really good at
Thinking, joking, swimming, lying on a beach, playing trumpet and keyboards, singing, dancing, kissing...

Knowing about geography, music, history, baseball, soccer, tour de France...

Witty comments...

Ellipses....
The first things people usually notice about me
eyes, hair, voice, height, thoughts, humor
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
too many to start listing...very eclectic, if pressed I could state some...On The Map, Bomber, Telegraph Avenue, Loose Balls, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, Visit From the Goon Squad, Art of Fielding, Tuesdays With Morrie, Patti Smith's Just Kids, Maphead, Big Hair and Plastic Grass, Cardboard Gods, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, James Jones' Thin Red Line...just read a couple of books by Michael Shaara...The Killer Angels is civil war on acid -- too bad Terence Malick didn't get the film rights instead of Ted Turner...

Atlases and maps --
History tomes

Throw out some sounds: Beatles, Beach House, Beach Boys, Kinks and Stones, The Who, Frank Ocean, Far East Movement, Field Music, Mojave 3, Cut Copy, Prince, Caribou, Kraftwerk, Bon Iver, Drake, Neil Young, Crusaders, Shocking Blue, Mux Mool, Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten, vintage African, Ratatat, Panda Bear, Band of Horses, Cabaret Voltaire, Budos Band (not what I expected live, but still good), Joan As Police Woman, Cat Power, Brick, Tribe Called ..., Yellow Magic Orchestra, Pantha du Prince, the Three O' Clock

Prog -- may attend the Baja Prog fest in Mexicali in early April

funk, go on
psychedelia - Just watched the re-mastered Magical Mystery Tour

spaghetti westerns -films and soundtracks (Morricone, Piccioni)

sci fi -- original Star Trek is my bible, but I liked the new film as well...
Portlandia
Der Gross und Stark Oz
Cyrus
Midnight In Paris
Casa de mi Padre
Chronicle
Moonrise Kingdom
The Wire
Skyfall
Sketch Show

classic comedies, Bugs Bunny, SCTV, Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, Regular Show, Dave Chappelle, Monty Python, old SNL, Piano Fight, Crisis Hopkins

Ken Russell, Jim Jarmusch, Almodovar, Peckinpaugh, Woody Allen, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Melville, Herzog, Malick, Anderson, Cronenberg (disappointed with his latest, however), Jodorowsky

Food -- Ethiopian, Trex, Bowl'd, kojak cart, arki truck, creme brulee, Gracias Madras, Hotsy Totsy
The six things I could never do without
Music

coffee

Maps

Contact

Laughter

Great images
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Rhythm, music and lyrics, maps, flying, my kids, great films, beauty
On a typical Friday night I am
Either with my kids or out at an event, dancing, an art opening, music gig, movie, maybe a beach sunset (getting teased with this), sometimes with a good dvd or sports event and home cooked meal...sometimes hitting the road...
I’m looking for
  • Girls who like guys
  • Ages 29–49
  • Near me
  • For long-term dating, short-term dating
You should message me if
you got what it takes...which means you are willing and/or able to see beyond what time and space constraints I may have, to allow for an intensely passionate and intellectually stimulating relationship to develop.....I can just chill as well, if that is what is desired...